Pierre Gasly won many fans in Netflix's #DriveToSurvive docuseries.
We sat down with him and chatted about F1 and his journey so far.
Read more from our exclusive chat with Pierre Gasly below 👇 🏎
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We sat down with him and chatted about F1 and his journey so far.
Read more from our exclusive chat with Pierre Gasly below 👇 🏎
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Pierre Gasly, the French driver who will lead the Alpha Tauri team into the 2022 season when it begins in Bahrain on the weekend of 18 March, joined the F1 grid at 21 and has had to contend with significant strife in his time in the sport. 
‘Over the last five years I think I’ve grown up a lot, from the different experiences I’ve had to go through, whether it was professionally or personally,’ Gasly exclusively told Metro.
After two excellent seasons with Alpha Tauri, in which he took his first race win and regularly qualified his car in lofty grid positions, Gasly is now widely considered one the most well-rounded, consistent, and naturally quick drivers in the Formula 1 field.
Just a few short years ago, though, Gasly was experiencing turmoil on and off the racetrack which threatened to derail his career. After six mediocre months as Max Verstappen’s team-mate at Red Bull, the team demoted him back down to Alpha Tauri.
Then, in an F2 race at Spa-Francorchamps ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix later that year, Gasly’s close childhood friend Anthoine Hubert tragically lost his life in a horrendous crash at the age of just 22.
‘I’m someone that never gives up. I know exactly where I wanna go, I’ve always had that in me. I literally felt no vulnerability from writing that, it was such an emotional and powerful moment of my life that I felt I had to release it, to find a way to move on.’
In recent weeks he has been one of the most vocal F1 drivers on the subject of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, calling for Russian forces to halt their assault on the country and demanding F1 cancel its race in Russia.
‘Right now what’s going on in the world is insane. I think we have got to do better and we all need to be responsible. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do or how many followers you have.’
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